Check through the Blog posts below to find our latest extended book reviews, our #TalkingLocationWith … pieces, and our views on matters of general literary interest. Search by either Location or by the Keywords you would like to come up in the results…
Red Smoking Mirror by Nick Hunt, novel set in 16th Century Mexico and Spain. Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2024, Fiction With A Sense Of Place. This is a cinematic novel set in the early 16th...
Five Nights by Rachel Wolf, thriller set on a transatlantic Atlantic crossing. Meet the Scamardo family: think Succession Italian style, via Newcastle upon Tyne. Mattia is the ageing head of the family, now married to Belle, a younger woman...
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, novel set in Brooklyn. #fromourbookshelves Long Island is the long awaited sequel to the wonderful novel Brooklyn, coming in May 2024. It therefore seems like a good opportunity to re-run our original review of Brooklyn...
Death on the Lusitania by R L Graham, novel set in 1915 as the Lusitania crosses the Atlantic. Patrick Gallagher is taking a British diplomat back to England for questioning and possible sentencing, his misdeed appears to be that...
Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly, novel set in AUCKLAND, New Zealand. Greta and Valdin is set in New Zealand’s multicultural capital, Auckland. It centres on three generations of one extended family. The narrators are Greta, a master’s...
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